KHS tennis players head to state tourneyEight players will represent Kodiak High School at the ASAA/First National Bank Alaska Tennis State Championships that begin Friday at Alaska Club-East in Anchorage. Of those eight, only senior Joyce Bachini has played on the state’s biggest stage. The 4-foot-11 Bachini will be making her third state appearance. As a sophomore, she went 1-2 in the girls doubles competition and last year went 0-2 in girls singles. ...

Public Safety Blotter: Oct. 9September 27 • At 12:17 a.m., a man on Center Avenue refused to pay his tab on Center Avenue and was removed from the bar. • Around 12:34 a.m., police conducted five bar checks downtown. • At 1:08 a.m., police responded to a suspicious vehicle on Rezanof Drive. It was unoccupied. • At 1:29 a.m., a bear was spotted getting into the trash in the Purtov and Larch streets area. It was gone when police arrived. • At 4:...

Health center beautifying its spaceFor the past few months, patients at the Kodiak Community Health Center have been welcomed into the hallways by a large painting of Barometer Mountain. It was painted earlier this year by then-senior Dong Won Yu, a student at Kodiak High School. Prior to that, the health center had created an employee beautification committee and sought the help of local art teacher at the high school, Bonnie Dillard. “I had the s...

Kodiakans compete in bodybuilding showA pair of Kodiakans competed in the Anchorage Bodybuilding Fitness and Figure Championships Saturday night. Nick Long placed third in the novice men’s bodybuilding division, while Sonia Cortez finished fourth in the women’s open figure competition for competitors under 5-foot-4. This was the second competition for both Long and Cortez. Long, originally from North Carolina and now stationed at Kodiak’s Coast Guard ...

Golfing in the darkA unique tournament will take place at Bear Valley Golf Course Friday evening. The Shot in the Dark Golf Tournament begins at 8 p.m. Golfers will be led around the nine-hole golf course by moonlight and a glowing golf ball. Entry fee is $25, plus green fees. The tournament is limited to 36 golfers. If raining the tournament will be moved to Saturday. The forecast is calling for 60 percent chance of rain for Friday...

Kodiakans speak out on proposed third launch padIsland residents deluged Federal Aviation Administration representatives with objections to expansion of the Kodiak Launch Complex during an open house session about the agency's draft environmental assessment for the proposed project. Alaska Aerospace Corp., the state-owned enterprise that operates the launch facility at Narrow Cape, plans to construct a third launch pad at the site, one capable of handling mediu...

Alumni update: Dunbar enjoying life as a proKodiak High School’s cross country team welcomed back a former champion by winning a championship. Trevor Dunbar, a multiple state champion for KHS, witnessed Kodiak’s boys win the school’s first state team title since 2008 — a team Dunbar was on — on Saturday in Anchorage. Dunbar was also on hand when the Bears won their 13th Region III title on Sept. 27 at Bear Valley Golf Course. Kodiak’s most prolific runner d...

The mammoth mystery of St. Paul IslandOne foggy day on St. Paul Island, a woolly mammoth stepped onto a trapdoor of greenery. It plunged thirty feet to the floor of a cave. There was no exit. A few thousand years later, a scientist who descended by ladder found the mammoth's tooth amid the bones of other mammoths, polar bears, caribou, reindeer and arctic foxes. Radiocarbon dating showed the mammoth died about 6,500 years ago. Here was proof that mamm...